From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Dec 30 2009 - 07:59:40 EST
The reality and the mischief of the UN sanction on Eritrea
Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:55.
By Ibrahim A. Ibrahim
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article33626
December 29, 2009 - To find out what is happening with in the circle of
"yes" men and scratch my back I will scratch yours simply visit the UNSC.
UNSC as is known it is made of 15 countries, with in them the 5 countries
are also called permanent members with the VETO power in their hands. The
other ten countries supposedly to be representing their regions and or
continents.
In reality however there are only 5 permanent members who do what they say
and what they want. The rest is mostly cosmetic.
With in the 5 permanent members though there is a chemistry of common
denomination. That is "you owe me" or "I owe you" a favor. Unless they have
a direct and serious interest of one of the five nations that is willing to
forcefully fight most of the time resolutions passes unanimously.
The funniest thing is the way a draft prepared. In most cases the draft is
prepared by either one or two permanent members, however sometimes as a
means of ploy they use their "yes" men to play as actors of owning a draft
proposition. Behind the seen it has to be dictated by the main players.
Eritrea has been one of the victims that has to be as a card of paying back
some one who owed someone, and a big deal for those who serve as the rule of
military, "do as ordered by your commanders without any question or delay."
In this case the primary beneficiary is the minority regime in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia as is known has taken one after the other orders from their
commanders to ignite war against Eritrea and invade a sovereign nation
Somalia. The gains that the minority regime in Ethiopia hoped to get from
Eritrea, by implementing the orders given to them was dashed by the gallant
citizen of Eritrea in the field and under the rule of law. Yet the
commanders had to reward them either way, provided implementing another
disastrous mission that cost the Ethiopian regimes army of over 10,000 and
Somali citizens mayhem death and displacement.
It is for these reason that Ethiopia's minority regime has been rewarded as
their Christmas wish against Eritreans.
Not only that, they have been told to simply ignore the rule of law by
occupying a sovereign nations land. (The inaction of not vacating Eritrea's
land will have dire consequence.)
The UNSC however, were keen to use the scratch my back to scratch yours and
I owe you, you owe me methodology. This kind of mockery at the UNSC is a
shame. The UNSC should have been the place, to assure the rule of law is
respected, and those who acted evil like the regimes in Addis to be
punished. In contradiction to the will of the peace loving people of our
region and others, the injustice took place against the country who spoke
loudly and proudly for justice.
Needles to mention, Eritrea is not going to be deterred under ill advised
methods to undermine it from the rooted stand for the betterment and peace
of the region, and from its strategic independent ideology.
Eritrea will not be affected from elevating the standard of living of its
citizen; will work undeterred and undisrupted in its short and long term
plans to fully restore the full fledged human dignity of its citizens and
its neighboring countries.
* The author is the Former Bank of Eritrea Administrator currently resides
in United States of America. He can be reached at
Ibrahim_Ibrahim@experienceworks.org
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